The Economics of Happiness

Oxford Analytica's has unveiled a new report that sheds light on the psychological impact unemployment has on the state of your mental health.

The report can be best summed with: If you have no job, you’re miserable.

This just in: The sky still is blue.

I know such a revelation seems pretty obvious. The same goes for the answer as to who is happiest.

Those honors go to the following: The highly educated, women, high-income earners, the young and old (not the middle-aged), married, self-employed and retired.

Among those the least happy (re: hating life) you’re likely without a job, divorced from your spouse and suffering from severe ill health.

Where exactly do you fit? Now I’m sure you may have the urge to threaten to slap me with a Dr. Phil book for reporting on a report that seems pretty self-explanatory, but hear me out.

With mass unemployment predicted by some to last “at least another 18-24 months and possibly longer in advanced capitalist economies” it’s evident that a growing number of people will found themselves succumbing to depression.